Shade-holder for incandescent electric lamps.



'No. 815,245. PATENTBD MAR. 13, 19076.

H. A. WRIGHT. V SHADE HOLDER FOR INOANDESOENT ELECTRIC LAMPS.

APPLICATION FILED JULYS. 1904.

. lai- To alzwhom it may concern.

. H UNITED STATES HARRY ANDREW WRIGHT, or s nnierrnto, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE YOST ,ELEOTRIC MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF TOLEDO,v

on c, A CORPORATION.

sHAD E-FroL-DER FOR.INEGA-NDIES'GENT ELECTRIC LA -PS.

1e it known that I, RR? ANDREW America,- residing at S ringfield, in the county of Hampdenandtate of Massachusetts, have-invented new and useful Improvementsin Shade-Holders forlncandescent 'Electric Lamps, of which the following is a specification. r v

This invention relates to shade-holders; and it is particularly adapted toincandescent electric lamps, the obj eet of the invention being to provide a holder-adapted to be removably secured to the sockets of the lamps, provision being made to adapt the. holder to sockets having different diameters.

1 The invention consists in the construction described in the following specification and pointed out clearly in the c aims forming a part thereof. a I

In the drawings accompanying this specification, Figure 1 is an elevation ofan incandescent lamp and socket, showing the shade secured thereto, certain of'the parts being shown in section. Fig. 2. is a erspective view of the shade-holder, the sha e being revided with two rings, approximately concentric, one located above the other, the ring a being the clamping-ring whereby the holder is secured to the socket by constriction, and

the-ring b is that which fits, within the conical shade c somewhat below the upper end thereof, whereby the shade, as shown in Fig. 1,

may be supported on this ring out of contact with the lamp or socket. The ring a is made with-two outwardly-extending arms d and d, lying in the plane of the ring and being, as shown in Fig. 3, approximately radial to the f center thereof. The arm d being one end 1 of the wire, has its extremity bent downspecification of Letters Patent. Application filed july 9, 1904. Seria11lo.15,857.

the shade to said ring.

Patented Maren re, 1906.

and backwardlyto conform to the shape of the end of the arm cl (and for the same purpose) and then runs downwardly, as at e, to the plane PATENT oFFIoE. 7 l r of the ring b,which is then formed, as shown in 5 the drawings, parallel and substantially cor centricwiththe ringa. The opposite'end of the'wire' (of which thering is formed) terminates substantially at the base of the perpendicular ortion 6. This portior'i'e of the shadeholder ies substantially in the plane of the side of the shade 0/ I Y Onthe'ring b there areloeated several flat metal clips f, having a swinging movement on the ring, the upper hookshaped ends g of which are bent over the upper edge of'the shade, as shown in Fig. 1, in such manner that the shade can have no vertical movement relative to the ring I), the hookspreventing u Ward movementand the ring I),

. which is 0 larger diameter than the open end of the top of the shade, preventing downward movement of the latter. The shade may be made of paper, metal, orother suit able material, as the'holder is ada ted to be secured to a shade of any materia -On one of the arms, as d, is a swinging hook h,which may be made of flat metal or wire, the.

hook end j thereof being arranged to snap over the arm cl tohold the ring a in constricting position around the lower end of the lam socket m. When the hook it is swung back, leavingthe arms d (1 free, the ring a will spring open wide enough to receive a lampsocket, and the two ends of the arms (1 (1 may then be pressedtogether and' the hook h swung over to engage said arm to clamp the I shade-holder to the socket. By sliding the hook h outwardly on the arms it will be seen that the ring a maybe constricted to a greater degree than if the hook were located close to the ring, owingto the radial spread of these arms, thus adapting the device to be clamped to sockets Whose diameters may differ more or less. v

In applying the shade to the shade-holder the latter is assed up into the shade and the ring a and the arms 01 01 passed through the open end thereof to bring the ring I) to a bearing against the inside of the shade, and the clipsff, which when attached to the ring?) are left at, are then bent over the, upper edge of the shade to form the hook ends g, which lock i" It is seen from the description of this de vice that it may be very cheaply made and does away with staples and the like whereby the shades are usually secured to the holders and permits the use of the holder on a shade made of any material.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A shade-holding clamp comprising two open rings in different planes and of different diameters, the smaller of the rings having two outwardly-extending finger-pieces, one of the finger-pieces constituting one of the ends of the clamp, the other of the fingerpieces extending downward from the smaller ring and integral with the lower open ring, the other end of the clamp terminating in close proximity to the downward-bent portion of the finger-piece.

2. A shade-holder for incandescent electric lamps consisting of an open ring to receive a lamp-socket and a shade holding ring of greater diameter than said open ring and located in a lower parallel plane, said two rings being formed of one piece of metal, said open ring having ends extending outwardly therefrom one of which is bent downwardly to connect with the shade-holding ring, together with a device to secure the outwardly-extending ends of said open ring together to constrictively engage the socket of a lamp.

3. A shade-holder for incandescent electric lamps consisting of an open socket-engaging ring and a shade-holding ring of larger diameter and supported below, and parallel with the open ring, said two rings being formed of one piece of wire, and said open ring having outwardly-extending ends one of which is bent downward to connect with the shadeholding ring combined with a hook slidably mounted on one of the outwardly-extending ends of the open ring to engage the other end.

HARRY ANDREW WRIGHT.

Witnesses:

WM. H. OHAPIN, K. I. CLEMoNs. 

